Securities to justify. the coroner may proceed to serve the writ of replevin according to law. 2. And be it enacted, That before the commissioner shall endorse his approval on such bond, he shall require the sureties named therein to justify before him in usual form, and shall thereupon immediately file the affidavits of justification with the clerk of the court whence the writ of replevin issued. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 4th, 1863. Preamble. Explanation. CHAPTER IV. AN ACT explanatory of an act entitled "An act to renew the charter of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Rahway, and to increase the capital stock thereof," approved the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WHEREAS, doubts have arisen as to whether, under the provisions of the act entitled "An act to renew the charter of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Rahway, and to increase the capital stock thereof," approved the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, the provisions of the fourth section of said act can take effect until the expiration of the time limited for the continuance of said corporation before the passage of said act; therefore, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the provisions of the said fourth section of the said act shall be held and taken to apply to all elections and meetings of the stockholders of said corporation hereafter to be held, as fully and to all intents and purposes as they would have applied if the said provisions had been incorporated in the original charter of said corpo ration. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 4, 1863. CHAPTER V. A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Sussex Mine Railroad Company," approved March the ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. branch roads. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of May extend the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the Sussex Railroad Company, and it is hereby authorized and empowered to construct a branch railroad from some convenient point on the present line of their railroad to some convenient point at or near to Franklin Furnace, in the county of Sussex, and from thence, if the said company shall deem it expedient, in a northerly direction to such other point in said county as may be deemed most for the public good, and to construct spurs or branches from their present railroad, and from the branch road hereby authorized, to any other point or place in said county; provided always, that no branches or spurs shall be constructed under the authority of this act, except such as shall be commenced within five years after its passage. restrictions. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of carrying into Privileges and effect the objects of this act, the said company shall be and it is hereby invested with all the rights, powers, authority and privileges given by the act to which this is a supplement, and the several supplements thereto, and subjected to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities contained in said act and supplements, and not inconsistent with this act; and if, under the powers conferred by the eighth section of the supplement approved February the fifth, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, the said company shall deem it expedient to open separate subscriptions, and create separate stock, and open and Separate keep separate accounts for the said branches or spurs author- bility. ized by this act, or either of them, it shall be lawful to create and issue the said separate stock in such manner that the same, and the branch railroad or spur for the construction of which it shall be issued, together with the locomotives, cars, and other stock, apparatus and machinery, used in the constructing and operating of such branch or spur, shall not be liable to the payment of any part of the debts of said company not contracted for the construction or operating of such stock and lia other roads. branch or spur, and that the debts contracted in the construction or operating of such branch or spur shall be a lien only upon such branch or spur, together with the locomotives, cars, and other stock, apparatus and machinery used in the construction or operating of the same, in the same manner as if the said branch or spur was owned and operated by a separate and distinct company. Contract with 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said company to contract with any other corporation, or with any individual, for the transportation of milk, lime, plaster and coal, from any point on their road, or any of its branches, to New York city, or any intermediate point, or to any point on the line of the Morris and Essex Railroad, as now used, or as it may be hereafter extended, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the contracting parties. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 4, 1863. Overseers and may place children in the Asylum. CHAPTER VI. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of guardians the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for the overseer of the poor of the city of Elizabeth, by the consent of said corporation, to place any poor child who is or shall become chargeable to said city, and for any mother or guardian of any poor child whose father is dead, or whose father has for the space of one year neglected to support the said child or make provision therefor, to place such poor child in the care and custody of said corporation, by writing under his or her hand and seal; and if any person or persons shall entice away or take or cause to be taken away from such care and custody any child heretofore placed, or which shall hereafter legally be placed therein, without the written consent of such corporation, through its proper officers, every such person so offending shall, on due proof thereof before any justice Penalty for taking them away. of the peace of the county of Union, be punished by fine not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three nor more than six months; and all fines imposed under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the treasurer of said corporation for its use; and such child so enticed or taken away shall be restored to the care and custody of the said corporation. bound out. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Children corporation, as guardian of the children under its care, to bind out such of the said children, who shall have been under their care for more than one year, as they may deem advisable; provided, that where the parent of any such child shall pay anything to the said corporation for its support, the consent of such parent to the exercise, by the said corporation, of such control over the said child, shall be required. Approved February 4, 1863. CHAPTER VII. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company," passed February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty. for twenty years. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Aet extended the State of New Jersey, That the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company," passed February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty, shall be and hereby is continued and extended for and during the term of twenty years. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 4, 1863. When the minutes to be held the re. ment.; CHAPTER VIII. A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of the courts of law," approved April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in any civil cause which has cord of judg been heretofore or shall hereafter be finally determined, until the clerk of the court shall enter the warrants of attorney, declaration, pleadings, proceedings, and judgment in such cause, as is required by the seventy-seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement, the entry of the verdict or rule for judgment in the minutes of the court, shall be held and taken in the court in which the same is obtained, to be the record of the judgment in such cause, and the same shall be received in evidence in said court, as such judgment, as fully as if the record had been made up and signed as by said section required. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take place immediately. Approved February 4, 1863. Preamble. CHAPTER IX. AN ACT to confirm the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds and other instruments in writing taken by Garret S. Boice. WHEREAS, it appears to the legislature that Garret S. Boice. was duly appointed, on the nineteenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one of the commissioners to take the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds for the fifth ward, Jersey City, county of Hudson, and state of New Jersey, and was commissioned and sworn into office by virtue of said commission; and whereas, it |